Pleasure Island
— — the nights that ran from 1989 to the last one in 2008.
Not only on a wall.
“A six-acre nightclub island at Walt Disney World, opened in 1989 on the Buena Vista lagoon between Downtown Disney Marketplace and the West Side. Six clubs ran every night, with a New Year's Eve countdown rerun at midnight as the conceit. The clubs closed in September 2008, and the island reopened as part of Disney Springs by 2016. The footprint, the bridges, and a few of the original buildings are still in place.
Pleasure Island, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Pleasure Island was a six-acre nightclub district within Walt Disney World, opened on 1 May 1989 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It sat between the Downtown Disney Marketplace and what would become Disney's West Side, on the Buena Vista lagoon. The conceit was a fictional backstory about Merriweather Adam Pleasure, a turn-of-the-century industrialist whose abandoned shipbuilding works had been reopened as nightclubs. The clubs closed on 27 September 2008. The footprint was redeveloped as part of Disney Springs, which opened in phases through 2016.
The signature gimmick was a nightly New Year's Eve. Every night at midnight a countdown ran, confetti dropped over Hill Street, and the entire island celebrated 1 January again. The six original clubs were the Mannequins Dance Palace, the Adventurers Club, the Comedy Warehouse, the Neon Armadillo, XZFR Rockin' Rollerdrome, and the Videopolis East dance club, with later additions including 8TRAX, the BET SoundStage Club, and Motion. The Adventurers Club, a salon-bar with animatronic decor and a cast of recurring characters, drew the most enduring fan attachment.
The island is reached today as part of Disney Springs, the open-air shopping and dining district at Walt Disney World, off Buena Vista Drive. Admission to Disney Springs is free; parking is also free in the two garages. The original Pleasure Island footprint is the central section between the Marketplace and West Side bridges. The Edison restaurant occupies the former Adventurers Club building, and several of the original facades remain visible to anyone walking the bridges at night.